Changes

Whenever an activity is started in sugar OS , we get to see a few seconds delay after clicking on the activity icon on the home screen and before the appearance of the pulsing icon animation. The delay also seems to be directly proportional to the complexity of the icon of the activity.

Whenever an activity is started in sugar OS , we get to see a few seconds delay after clicking on the activity icon on the home screen and before the appearance of the pulsing icon animation. The delay also seems to be directly proportional to the complexity of the icon of the activity.

===Solutions and their End results===

===Solutions and their End Results===

Tried to stop the first frame of the animation from being  filled with colors , so that upon starting the animation we would get to see a raw grayscale svg icon of the activity for the first frame only and then it would be seamlessly continued with the pulsing icon animation.

Tried to stop the first frame of the animation from being  filled with colors , so that upon starting the animation we would get to see a raw grayscale svg icon of the activity for the first frame only and then it would be seamlessly continued with the pulsing icon animation.

Result : The idea was to reduce the rendering time of the first frame so as to speed up the appearance of the first frame of the animation and hence reduce the delay. This fix seems to work the best till date and has reduced the delay time by more than  50% as noted in the logs and reported by the community.

Result : The idea was to reduce the rendering time of the first frame so as to speed up the appearance of the first frame of the animation and hence reduce the delay. This fix seems to work the best till date and has reduced the delay time by more than  50% as noted in the logs and reported by the community.